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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective: Epilogue

Posted in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Foreign Policy, Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on October 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Introducing the concept for this retrospective,  I said that as I began reading Hard Choices I had the impression of watching a movie of a series of events I had witnessed while blogging about them.  That remained the case throughout as I have shared here, but there were many instances of revelation and surprises as […]

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective Part Six Chapter 25 Human Rights: Unfinished Business

Posted in Foreign Policy, Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Human Rights, LGBT Issues, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, Uncategorized, Women's Issues, Women's Rights, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 20, 2014| 4 Comments »

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Hillary Rodham Clinton Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session delivered 5 September 1995, Beijing, China Hillary Clinton Swears In Melanne Verveer Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues June 12, 2009 by still4hill Secretary Clinton’s Remarks With Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare November 3, 2010 […]

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective Part Six Chapter 24 21st Century Statecraft: Digital Diplomacy in a Networked World

Posted in Foreign Policy, Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Internet Freedom, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on October 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Hillary saw the need to incorporate technology in diplomacy early on and begins this chapter at TechCamp Vilnius,  the third of these training camps her State Department had held by  June 2011.  It consisted of two days of eleven-hour sessions devoted to showing how pro-democracy activists could circumvent government opposition tactics thwarting their organizing efforts. […]

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective Part Six Chapter 23 Haiti: Disaster and Development

Posted in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Foreign Policy, Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »

This chapter is an intensely personal one for me.  Like anyone who has ever lived there, I remember exactly where I was – sitting in my car at an intersection I was at daily on my way home from work – when I heard the news of the earthquake on the radio.  As soon as […]

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective Part Six Chapter 22 Jobs and Energy: A Level Playing Field

Posted in Clinton Foundation, Foreign Policy, Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on October 7, 2014| 2 Comments »

The chapter begins in Algeria, a key partner on many fronts and one, like many, that could do with some improvements on the human rights side of the page.  Near the end of her tenure as secretary of state, she traveled to Algeria with, as always, a checklist of items to be addressed.  One, not […]

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective Part Six: The Future We Want Chapter 21 Climate Change: We’re All In This Together

Posted in Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2014| 2 Comments »

Hillary begins the chapter at Cop15 in Copenhagen, December 2009.  She attended with President Obama. It is now diplomatic lore.  Representatives of the most important nations they wanted to speak with, China, Brazil, India, and South Africa were somehow not to be found.  Concluding that this had to mean a secret meeting among them, Hillary […]

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective Part Five Chapter 20 Gaza: Anatomy of a Cease-Fire

Posted in Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 30, 2014| 5 Comments »

Hillary begins this chapter by verifying an incident we had all seen reported that was never confirmed.  It took place on the road between Ramallah and Jerusalem in 2012 and concerned many of us. She was traveling in the Holy Land just before Thanksgiving. Video: Hillary Clinton With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu November 20, 2012 […]

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective Part Five Chapter 19 Syria: A Wicked Problem

Posted in Barack Obama, Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2014| 2 Comments »

Hillary introduces this chapter with a June 2012 meeting called by Special Envoy Kofi Annan to try to recruit international political backing for his plan for peaceful transition in Syria.  Protests had been going on for a year-and-a-half and had been met with brutal assaults by government forces. Hillary Clinton: Press Conference Following Syria Action […]

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective Part Five Chapter 18 Iran: Sanctions and Secrets

Posted in Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Secretary of State Travel, state department, U.S. Department of State, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 13, 2014| 10 Comments »

In Oman with Sultan Qaboos,  January 12, 2011,  when strategies to limit Iran’s nuclear expansion were failing, the sultan suggested secret talks. “I can help,” he said. She liked his style. Monarch, yes, but a true reformer with a great human rights record and possibly our best chance at that moment. Hillary provides a brief […]

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Retrospective Part Five Chapter 17 Benghazi: Under Attack

Posted in Foreign Policy, Foreign Service, Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 10, 2014| 10 Comments »

This picture is from the May 1, 2009 ceremony when the name of Brian Adkins was added to the memorial wall in the lobby of the Harry S. Truman Building. Brian was a 25-year-old Foreign Service officer killed in his first tour of duty in the consular section of the American Embassy in Addis Ababa, […]

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